41 minHis daughter was in the hospital, and he was home gambling
Joe Pizzimenti/Last bet December 2013
First bet at 12. By his late twenties: a six-figure tech job, $100K of gambling debt and a night at the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Anthony Natoli placed his first bet at twelve years old. By his late twenties he had the six-figure tech sales life in San Francisco that looks perfect from the outside.
Underneath it: over a hundred thousand dollars of gambling debt, sixty pounds overweight, a credit score in the four hundreds, and a night standing at the edge of the Golden Gate Bridge.
He walks through exactly how a compulsive sports betting habit escalates, and what it took to come back from the edge of it.
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41 minJoe Pizzimenti/Last bet December 2013
58 minJonathan Cohen/Historian, author of Losing Big
38 minEugene K./Five years clean, Gamblers Anonymous